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Feb 10, 2022 · It’s the second of three conjunctions of Venus and Mars inside just eight months, with the first observed on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 and the next one on March 12, 2022.
- April 4 - Mars and Saturn
- April 16 - Full Moon
- April 18 - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
- April 21/22 - The Lyrid Meteor Shower
- April 27 - Crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
- April 28 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
Here’s another great planetary conjunction for you - Mars and Saturn are now just half a degree apart and while they’re evenly matched in brightness, their colors will contrast nicely. Mars shines with a coppery light while Saturn appears pale yellow and the pair will easily fit into the same field of view of any binocular (or a telescope at low po...
Like the full Moon last month, April’s full Moon occurs in Virgo, but whereas the Moon was on the western side of the constellation in March, it’s now on the eastern edge, close to the border with Libra. The bright star Spica appears 9 degrees to the west of the Moon. April’s full Moon is known as the Pink Moon, after the phlox flowers that bloom a...
If you’ve been rising early over the past few weeks, you may have noticed Jupiter creeping away from the Sun and into the morning twilight. This gives us an excellent opportunity to see four of the five naked-eye planets in the predawn sky, with all but Mercury being visible. This morning they’re fairly evenly spaced, with Jupiter lowest in the eas...
The second prominent meteor shower of the year is the Lyrids. Under ideal conditions, this medium-strength shower can produce about 15 to 20 meteors an hour, not to mention the occasional fireball. Lyra, the constellation from which the meteors appear to originate, rises at about 11 p.m., while the waning gibbous Moon rises in Sagittarius some four...
There’s another opportunity to see a conjunction of the crescent Moon and several planets this morning. Last month it was close to Venus, Saturn, and Mars but today we find it just a little below Venus and Jupiter. These are currently the three brightest objects in the sky and with just four degrees between the Moon and Jupiter and 3.2 degrees betw...
If you’re not a morning person, you’ll be pleased to know there’s one planet you’ll be able to see in the evening sky. Mercury is at its greatest elongation from the Sun today, which makes it visible in the west from about 15 minutes after sunset. At an altitude of about 16 degrees at that time, the planet will be reasonably high above the horizon,...
May 9, 2018 · Spoiler alert for those who do want the big ticket price: To get a US mission to Mars before 2050, the program must cost less than $220 billion, according to a significant 2014 government...
The program's stated long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate human missions to Mars. Two principal elements of the Artemis program are derived from the now-cancelled Constellation program: the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) (as a reincarnation of Ares V).
Jul 3, 2019 · SpaceX is aiming for a much, much faster timeframe, with a series of 10 launches to start a city by 2050. Here’s how it looks: SpaceX’s Mars Plan: 2019
Venus and Mars: Passing in the Night. Image Credit & Copyright: Explanation: When two planets pass on the night sky, they can usually be seen near each other for a week or more. In the case of this planetary conjunction, Venus and Mars passed within 4 degrees of each other earlier this month.
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Venus will be at mag -4.6, and Mars at mag 1.3, both in the constellation Sagittarius. The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope or pair of binoculars, but will be visible to the naked eye.
